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Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour, which made her an international icon, earned her enduring popularity.
Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (previously Spencer, née Roche; 20 January 1936 – 3 June 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.She was the maternal grandmother of William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, respectively first and fifth in the line of succession to the British throne.
Princess Diana may have been viewed as a commoner when she walked down the aisle on July 29, 1981 to marry Prince Charles, but as the daughter of John Spencer and Frances Shand Kydd (her name ...
Diana — who lost her life at age 36 after a Paris car accident on Aug. 31, 1997 — is buried at the Spencer family ancestral home, Althorp, which Spencer has been custodian of since 1992, after ...
Diana is buried on a private, tranquil island at her family’s ancestral home, Althorp. ... (Diana Princess of Wales) with her Brother Charles, Lord Althorp (Earl Spencer) in 1968.
She and her family reside near Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she served a one-year term as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 2009. [5] [6] She became a master of the Belvoir Hunt in May 2010. [6] Lady Sarah was also president of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which raised over £112 million for various charities, before closing in 2012.
Princess Diana left a grand legacy in her wake following her death in 1997. Diana married into England’s royal family in July 1981, when she and King Charles III (then Prince Charles) exchanged ...
However, Diana's mother, Frances, did not wear it when she married into the Spencer family in 1954. While Diana's mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, loaned her the Queen Mary's Lover's Knot Tiara for the wedding, the princess-to-be decided to stick to her family roots and wore the Spencer tiara. [20]